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F4F Funding Enables the Company’s Fusion Demonstration Plant VANCOUVER, Canada – General Fusion announced that it has successfully closed USD$65 million of Series E equity financing. The financing was led by Temasek, a global investment company headquartered in Singapore. This USD$65 million of new financing, together with the release of CAD$50 million in additional investment from … Read more
Fusion for Energy Oct. 1, 2019 The hot gas inside the ITER machine will reach temperatures ten times higher those in the core of the Sun. A burning plasma of 150 million °C will be ignited and with the help of powerful superconducting magnets it will be confined without touching the surface of the vacuum … Read more
Forbes by Gemma Milne | Aug. 29, 2019 First Light Fusion’s Machine 3 in their Oxford-based laboratory First Light Fusion Fusion energy startup First Light Fusion is working towards demonstrating “first fusion” before the end of the year, in their Oxford-based laboratory. If they succeed, they join only a few companies and research groups on … Read more
DOE July 29, 2019 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $14 million in funding for 10 university-led research projects using the DIII-D National Fusion Facility. A major goal of the research is to develop methods of sustaining steady-state or continuous operation of fusion reactors, an essential step toward eventually making … Read more
This tutorial will show the overwhelming evidence for human activity having a negligible effect on the Earth’s climate. Definitions and Distinctions: What is “green”? Air pollution is bad. CO2 is not a pollutant. The resolution of the question lives ultimately in the domain of science. Thus, It’s essential to understand the physics and climate history … Read more
An examination of the economics and practicality of grid scale solar power Download this article as a PDF By Barrie Lawson, UK Forward by Tom Tamarkin Key Concepts By 2060 88% of current on-line utility scale generation capacity will be retired due to plant age and life cycle considerations Solar Photovoltaics require 3 … Read more
Members of Tom’s family for the last hundred years have had “science in their blood.” Tom’s great grandfather was Sir Thomas E. Thorpe, a very highly esteemed chemist in the U.K. From 1951 to 1968 Tom’s father, Thomas E. Thorpe, taught physics at West Phoenix High School (WPHS.) WPHS earned the reputation of having one … Read more
By William Tucker Photo: Prof. Albert Einstein delivers the 11th Josiah Willard Gibbs lecture at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in the auditorium of the Carnegie Institue of Technology Little Theater at Pittsburgh, Pa., on Dec. 28, 1934. Photo by AP Listen to Albert Einstein explaining E=mc2 in his … Read more
Development of Practical Fusion Power; Plasma Jet Driven Magneto-Inertial Fusion introduction by T.D. Tamarkin; scientific contributors, S. C. Hsu, Ph.D., T. J. Awe, Ph.D., S. Brockington, Ph.D., A. Case, Ph.D., J. T. Cassibry, Ph.D., G. Kagan, Ph.D., S. J. Messer, Ph.D., M. Stanic, X. Tang, Ph.D., D. R. Welch, Ph.D., and F. D. Witherspoon, Ph.D. … Read more
By Tom Tamarkin A Proclamation to the World – English דבר העם האמריקאי והעם הישראלי לעולם (A Proclamation to the World – Hebrew) بيان إلى العالم من الشعبين الامريكي والاسرائيلي (A Proclamation to the World – Arabic) اعلامیه جهانی توسط مردم آمریکا (A Proclamation to the World – Farsi) Proclamación al Mundo de parte de … Read more